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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The Tao of Programming
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Date: 7 Aug 89 05:10:26 GMT
References: <1989Aug4.073731.1087@ctr.columbia.edu> <4036@cps3xx.UUCP> <469@thirdi.UUCP> <1819@munnari.oz.au>
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In article <1819@munnari.oz.au> kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes:
>In article <469@thirdi.UUCP>, peter@thirdi.UUCP (Peter Rowell) writes:
>> When he asked how many machines it was on, I told him that, since it
>> had been posted 18 hours before on the east coast, it probably wasn't
>> in Australia yet,
>
>News gets to Australia much faster than that.  We don't necessarily
>read it in any great hurry, but its here...  (your article arrived
>about 5 1/2 hours after you posted it).

Ah, but I assure you its essential meaning reached you even before
it was written.

				--Blair
				  "Hey, if I can't be a _C_ guru...
				   :-)"